misargument

incorrect argument

Noun

  1. incorrect argument
    • should not merely try to establish our own opinion dogmatically and historically, and content ourselves with exposing and refuting the misstatements and misarguments of our erring brethren: - 1847, John Howard Hinton,...
    • to be in doubt whether a paper written in defence of Christian doctrine, has not in itself afforded a handle to infidel misarguments. - 1877, William Ricketts Cooper, The Horus Myth in Its Relation to...
    • 1977, Oak Ridge Bicentennial Lectures: Technology and Societyhttps://books.google.com/books?id=I5IBHNg0C5AC&pg=PA62&dq=%22misarguments%22. Questioner: Your comments about Arthur Kantorwitz's court and the arguments...

    Hypernyms: argument

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Latin arguō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin argūmentumder. Anglo-Norman arguementbor. Middle English argument English argument English misargument From mis- + argument.

Forms

misarguments

Related

demagogism demagoguery demagogy fallacy misclaim misrepresentation misstatement sophism sophistry